📅 Date: Saturday, September 13 at 5pm 📍Location: First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church Street -
đźš— Parking: Available in the Church lot accessed off of Summer Street and in the CVS lot off of Church Street. Use the front entrance facing Church Street.
Join Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment and MA Peace Action for "Voices from Palestine & the Region.”
This event will feature:
➡ Amahl Bishara, a Palestinian American and a professor of anthropology at Tufts University and author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (2022). She will address what is currently happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what might happen in the future.
➡ Valentine M. Moghadam, a Professor of Sociology and former Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University. Previously she was a section chief at UNESCO. Her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and gender, politics, and development in the Middle East and North Africa.
➡ Katherine Hanna, a Palestinian American and retired educator who is currently working to support education projects in Occupied Palestine. She is co-founder of the Boston Palestine Film Festival, Watertown for Palestine and Friends of Zahrat Al Yasmeen Kindergarten, a school in Bethlehem. She will speak about what we can do to end the Israel genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Source: Voices from Palestine and the Region - Massachusetts Peace Action